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Inside College Football: Conference title games beget the playoff, wackiness we love

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Roy Kramer started all of it -- all the possibilities, all the arguments, all the programming clogging the airwaves this week associated with the College Football Playoff.

"I probably created more call-in show talk than anybody in the world," said Kramer, 86 and happily retired in East Tennessee.

That is an understatement. Kramer is the former SEC commissioner who started us down this road when a third-place team from the Big Ten East could win a national championship.